Minnesota Proposes Universal Gun Registration

Minnesota lawmakers in the state senate have proposed a bill that would require gun owners to register their weapons under the guise of “universal background checks.” Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance, a gun rights advocacy group in Minnesota summarized what the bill aims to do:

“SF 458, among other faults, would make you a criminal, punishable with up to a year in jail, if you buy or sell a pistol or cosmetically frightening rifle without doing the transfer through a licensed dealer (who will charge you $25 to make a permanent record for the federal government) or without the buyer getting a purchase permit (for which the police chief or sheriff will charge another $25).”

Once again, this wouldn’t deal with the criminal element. What criminal is going to care that the law requires that he register his weapon or that he get a background check? All this would do is give the feds a list of people in the state of Minnesota who own a firearm, and they’re using the background check to do it. Criminals would be exempt.

It’s another way of achieving their goal of citizen disarmament through the back door. It’s practically impossible to try to go door-to-door, inspecting people’s homes for guns and taking them away. They’ve got to go about it in a more gradual way, pretending to be concerned about mental illness and acting like if we knew everyone’s criminal history, we could keep guns out of the wrong hands. They frame the debate in such a way that even some conservatives think that universal background checks and mental health checks are a good idea before allowing someone to own a gun. But it’s because people have accepted these criteria for gun ownership that the government will continue to broaden the definition of mental illness and withhold 2nd Amendment rights from anyone who has even the smallest criminal record (even if the citizen was actually innocent).

They’re even trying to bar military veterans from owning guns on the basis that these veterans might not be competent enough to handle their own affairs because of certain physical or mental conditions. If Veterans Affairs decides that a particular veteran is not competent, then that vet will not be able to own a firearm. A letter from the VA to a veteran said that there would be consequences if the vet disobeyed their orders:

“A determination of incompetency will prohibit you from purchasing, possessing, receiving, or transporting a firearm or ammunition. If you knowingly violate any of these prohibitions, you may be fined, imprisoned, or both…”

And these “determinations of incompetency” are all at the discretion of the VA.

There was a Missouri bill that was introduced last week that would ban all semi-automatic rifles and require all semi-automatic rifle owners to turn in their weapons within 60 days of the law’s effective date or else become felons. In response, a Republican proposed a bill that would make it a class D felony for any lawmaker to propose a bill that encroaches on people’s 2nd Amendment rights. Now, if we could get every state to enact something like that, we’d be in much better shape.

Comments

What part of INFRINGE do you not understand? Get a f**king dictionary!

ESQ

Be nice Frank, LOL, You Minnesota Guys and gals no who you got to can. so do it!

don

frank they could care less what it means their only want us disarmed any way they can with guns we are something to be reconed with. . un amred we are sheep at the mercy of their heel. stand united a we can not be defeated

rational

The part of infringe that Justice Scallia wrote in Heller "Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment or state analogues"

leefromok

The original intent of the 2nd amendment was to allow citizens to protect themselves from tyrannical government. If that’s true, then law abiding citizens should have access to the same armament as the government It’s not just liberal judges and politicians that are trying to infringe our rights.

http://www.facebook.com/carline.long Carline D. Long Jr.

Get them outta office up there Frank. Make them pay for their back alley attempts.

derpaderpaderpa

Deeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp!

Uptite

Welcome to our world here in Masshole!

dad666

Fire any politician that attempts to impose any new gun laws. Develope a new candidate that supports theConstitution fully, begin a recall against any politician that attempts this kind of back door seizure, write your representative and threaten removal for any who vote for more anti gun laws, they are in violation of the constitution and their oath of office.

ESQ

You're so right. But it's going to a hard ain't it? It's time to start campaigning now! Come on you new Reps lets get started!

don

sorry esq but this want make it to midterm. voting is over with. now only action will right this marixs take over. they are scared of us armed. soon very soon we must shake their world.

How about just shoot them... with an ideology like "imposing new gun laws" they are a burden to society! We already know where they stand! just shoot them and put them out of their misery... the same as what we would do with a rabid animal!

don

your closer to the answer than you know

Kent2012

put them out of our misery....

BigUgly666

If they violate their Oath and/or the Constitution, capture them, try them, execute them for TREASON.

Problem solved.

John Wilch (TSgt, USAF Ret.)

Hey, if you execute them you're getting read of free labor. Just convict them and for a sentence: Make the individual work from 0600 to 2000 (6 am to 8 pm) Monday through Friday and then on Saturday 0600 to 1800 (6 am to 6 pm) for a maximum of 5 years per charge. This punishment will be give to the person no matter what gender they are and if there has been a death related to the crime you'll go straight to the gallows with no appeal allowed.

don

want have time to mess with them treason= death sensence

http://www.facebook.com/jpwilchjr John Wilch

Don, I'm not anti-death but before we do put them down; put them to work on a chain gang (the old kind: Oregon-boot type) building roads or playgrounds for our kids. When they are doing the work make them do it like my Grandpa did it with horse, shovels, and pure back-breaking labor; then after the work is done --- well!

http://www.facebook.com/don.rasher.7 Don Rasher

Yeah Sarge, that all sounds "reasonable and legal"! No appeal??? EVERYONE has a right to appeal! It;s called "due process"! With what you suggest, you are no better than Obama and his Marxist minions! Oh, thank you for your service! I hate em too, but I won't stoop to the level of a commie like Obama and Holder.

http://www.facebook.com/jpwilchjr John Wilch

Don, I didn't mean what my statement sounded like, it was late and my fingers was typing faster than my mind was working. What I meant was yeah give them an appeal but only three: One: state, two: District, three:Federal and if the sentence is upheld in all three then they go straight to the gallows.

As to my service I'd do it again because that oath I took was for the rest of my life. Oh, it also includes the protection of those that can not defend themselves and yes it also includes those that will not.

leefromok

EVERYONE has a right to appeal! Not after the passage of NDAA!

I would let Sheriff Arpaio care for them!

don

i say lets pull back let them pass all their marixs laws aginst us then stand an take this. country back. we are not going to set this country back on her feet with out a fight anyway. hell even our own reputlicans are aginst us. i'm 70 i will stand my ground

mountaine

DON'T GO ALONG TO GET ALONG !!!! TELL THEM TO GO POUND SAND. YOU HAVE TO ALL STAND TOGETHER ON THIS. THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO DO THIS.

WHAT RIGHT DOES ANOTHER MAN ( I DON'T CARE WHO HE SAYS HE IS ) HAVE TO TELL YOU WHAT YOU CAN'T HAVE AND CAN HAVE ? THIS IS A GOD GIVEN RIGHT FOR US TO BEAR ARMS ....NOW DOES HE REALLY THINK HE'S ABOVE GOD ?!?!? I KNOW HE IS NOT !!! WHAT MAKES THEM THINK THEY CAN CHANGE THIS AFTER BEING IN USE FOR ALL THESE YEARS ?!?!?!

Amendment II Right to bear arms

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Isn't it clear enough......SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED !!!

don

they think they have the right to enslave us. but as long as us sheep have weapons their plan can not be full filled

Dempseycoleman

By any chance are they sugesting a convicted Convict will come in and Register his Pistol or one of the Drug Cartell Member's from Mexico will come in and register his AK-47 I wonder who will comply????

doctorbob

Liberals don't think more than 5 minutes ahead. That thought hasn't crossed their minds yet. It will in about 10 years.... maybe.

jb80538

Liberals don't think. That's the problem.

rational

Actually, doctorbob, if you look at the demographics of gun ownership, time is not on your side. As the number of guns owned has increased the percent of households owning guns has decreased. Its the younger households that aren't signing on. The idea of a geriatric citizens army with their walkers and guns is simply laughable.

If their gun and magazine bans are passed, registration, and/or any/all of their other unconstitutional infringements of our rights, I will not comply. Millions more will not comply. DHS and other alphabet agencies have recently purchased over 1.8 BILLION rounds of hollow point ammo – enough to shoot every man, woman, and child in the country 5 times or more – ammo that’s illegal for military use under international law, and have just ordered more and an additional 7,000 FULLY AUTOMATIC "personal defense" weapons. How does anyone with the capability of rational thought escape the conclusion that our government is preparing for a war on its own citizens? Feinstein, Schumer, Obama, Holder, Bloomberg, Cuomo, and their whole gang are tyrant wannabes. To them, anyone who does, or might, oppose their control over every aspect of our lives, is “a criminal” because they said so. To quote a few of their heroes, with explanatory comments in ( ): “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” – Mao (They revere Mao and the way he ruthlessly grabbed power in China. The fact that he murdered about 100 million Chinese to do it is, to them, a “feature,” not a “bug.”) “If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves. … The only real power comes out of a long rifle. … Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. … We don’t let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns? … The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.” — Joseph Stalin “The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty.” — Adolf Hitler (These psychopathic sociopaths in our government – and THEY ARE PRECISELY THAT, never make the mistake of doubting it – believe that they are anointed to be our rulers and that we are the equivalent of Hitler’s “subject races.” And we know what they did to "them.") Don’t tell me, “It can’t happen here in America.” To borrow a quote from Mike Vanderboegh, “Anyone who tells you that ‘It Can’t Happen Here’ is whistling past the graveyard of history. There is no ‘house rule’ that bars tyranny coming to America. History is replete with republics whose people grew complacent and descended into imperial butchery and chaos.” Hitler disarmed the Jews and others, then murdered millions Stalin disarmed the Russians, them murdered millions Mao disarmed the Chinese peasants, then murdered nearly 100 million. The Turks disarmed the Armenians, then murdered 1.5-2 million. Pol Pot disarmed the Cambodians and murdered millions. Rwanda disarmed its ethnic groups, then murdered millions. The list goes on … about 262 MILLION people murdered BY THEIR OWN GOVERNMENTS in the 20th century – AFTER they allowed those governments to disarm them. See: http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM They ALL thought “It can’t happen here” – until they were disarmed and it started, then it was too late. Don’t make the same mistake. Don’t EVER let your government disarm you. The Founders knew that government, if not constrained at every step, will continue to accumulate power and control until it becomes tyranny. That’s why they feared standing armies and insisted that the “right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” “A tyrannical rule cannot in any reasonable construction be accounted lawful, and therefore the disturbance of such a government cannot be esteemed seditious, much less traitorous.” – Thomas Aquinas When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance becomes Duty – Thomas Jefferson Take the pledge:http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2012/12/19/my-personal-pledge-of-resistance-against-any-attemp-to-disarm-us-by-means-of-an-assault-weapons-ban/

don

don't need to take the pledge i have been there i am ready. i already ran into the street but no one else was there.. do not think this can be fix with words. that is over. a battle now has to happen the marixs want this too. i think their sure we will fight. why other reason to buy 2 billon rounds of ammo an 7000 more auto ar16s thats 15 years worth of ammo. prepare load an stand ready. to stop us from becoming slaves to this rezime a battle must rage.

ijohnc1

Won't happen in Minnesota, the folks there are too dense, they gave us Al Franken, and several other liberals, they deserve all they get, in spades

leefromok

Do you think fraud might have something to do with that?

leefromok

I agree with everything about Democide, but I would argue that your numbers are still way too low. What if you take into account the abortion industry, mostly targeting blacks (black genocide)? Maafa 21 (2009) Full Lengthhttp://youtu.be/02t3Wqg-4Iw

Then there is the FDA (federal disease administration). It’s hard to count all the people that have been killed by drugs that have been taken off the market only after they have killed enough people. And pharmaceutical companies are protected from truly helpful supplements and cheap alternatives.

Some estimates are that 15 million Philippine women were sterilized by vaccines. They sued the world health organization and won. (and that is just the Philippines) You can see Bill Gates talking about how to reduce the world population using vaccines on YouTube. The USA is full of obese people that are dyeing from lack of nutrition because they follow the government guidelines. Endocrine disrupters are lowering fertility rates in both men and women. Male potency is half what it was 10 years ago.

I could go on and on but if you search for agenda 21 and Georgia Guide stones, you will realize we haven’t seen anything yet!

wmp23d

Don't you mean the Mexican Drug Cartel members should register their assault rifles they got from the gun running Obama and Holder in "Fast and Furious"? The same guns that have been used to kill Americans. Holder should be removed from office and face murder charges and Obama should be impeached at the least. Nixon was impeached for Watergate and I don't believe anyone died from Watergate. It sure seems funny that Obama used executive privilege to prohibit the release of any documents concerning "Fast and Furious".

Dempseycoleman

Yes Sir you got it We have no Republican with any Balls A Democrat would have been calling for Impeachment long befor another Stollen Election could have taken place. I am tired of Media like FOX for one alyways asking why US Americans are not calling for Justice? We are just our Republicans will not listen. I have sent my RINO Rubio a lot of stuff I think would justify Impeachment and he does not a thing. I am just totally FED UP!!

goku vegeta

THE TIME TO DEBATE AND AIR GRIEVANCES IS OVER. IT IS TIME TO ACT. HOP TO IT PEOPLE!

ESQ

Well said!

Ranchman

DO NOT COMPLY!!! Once this govt disarms the people, tyranny will ensue. We have seen the truth of our own govt and their plans against the people. We will have to fight against this tyranny with everything we have, just as our founders did. It will not be easy, it will not be pretty, and it will be horrific, but if we don't fight back, this generation and every generation to come will have to live under an oppressive, tyrannical regime, hellbent on controlling the people in every way they possibly can. Do you want to live your life like that? I sure don't. I would rather die a free man,having helped protect freedom for my children than live as a slave and watch my children live that way. I choose freedom.

Disgusted Patriot

Ranchman, tyranny is already here. Look at Obamacare, seatbelt laws and political correctness. Bloomberg in NYC regulating the size of your drinks? The current Nanny State is insidious tyranny.

don

im'70 ranch man but i would protect your back. god bless these people that think l;ike ranchman an know what has to be done i'm sorry i'm so old. but will when the time .comes i will account for my self.

RBeagle

New slogan in NY: "My guns are not illegal, they are undocumented."

Disgusted Patriot

Very good!!!!!!!!

http://www.facebook.com/larry.wing.10 Larry Wing

Or maybe they're "out of status".

doctorbob

If they're "undocumented," then the government SHOULD subsidize them by giving me free ammunition. Hey, works for "undocumented immigrants."

sgtshel

Sounds like a deal! We pay for free birth control to 8th graders----pay back to us should be free ammo! Works for me, seeing every time I go to my local gun dealer ----there is no ammo! Dick's is empty--Gander Mtn is empty--Walmart is empty--except 2 boxes of .380 from Serbia!!

ESQ

I believe Dick's went Liberal! Not sure!

ESQ

Man! you guys are hot tonight!

BobM001

"Undocumented Firearms" and "Gubment Ammo"? I LIKE IT! The only thing that would make it better would be a "live Liberal politician target range".

Kent2012

Using computer generated targets of current politicians that record number of hits and location, then send the resulting video and stats to a DC television station.....you have to show up in person at a sponsoring firing range, no online stuff.....

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NLORN6B3ZNGCAJTFHWWFUUEY4Q jong

And most importantly they can be used and not deported.

Kent2012

and medical care

ESQ

Great line there Beagle! They are supposed to be undocumented!

G. Macher

Very good! Zing! Obama. Zing! Libtards!

colleenf

Good one! Don't insult my guns by calling them illegal, or I will scream racism and charge you with a hate crime!

patriot2

at least your guns aren't on welfare or collecting social security benefits they didn't pay into,like the politicians,illegals in the white house & illegal aliens!!!

gnafuasusual

How about the word, "Extortion?" To obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power." And, that is what registration is all about. NOT one gun carrying criminal is going to put his/her name on a list The list does nothing but line up all legal gun owners and leaves criminals at large to do their dirty work; and, opens the door to complete removal of legal guns. Who do they think they are addressing? We Americans didn't just get off the boat! The word Extortion hits the nail on the head and with extortion comes the infringement of The People's rights to bear arms. I thought the whole idea was to enforce the gun laws and rules on the book and actually put criminals away. Guess not.

drmdellis

It never has been "gun control" but it is "people control". That is and always has been the deal.

freedixie

Okay you folks in Minnesota, put your "big boy" pants on and defy these communist wannabe dictators. You already know that registration is the first step of confiscation. Don't tell them anything. When they do as the crooks in the District of Communists have done and pass "laws" that are in violation of the Constitution, then they have broken their oath to "protect and defend the Constitution" and therefore have nullified their right to hold office, and should be arrested, tried, and hung. These socialists need rooting out and exterminating like the vermin they are. They are a disgrace to our Founders, and to all that have gone before us and sacrificed so much to obtain and preserve our freedoms. Do not give in. NO REGISTRATION!

jsmithcsa

OK, thanks, but what chance do these bills have of passing? (Intended as an honest question -- I have no idea of the politics, esp in Minnesota.)

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000000541834 Ted Smith

Minnesota is the state which took the US Senate election of 2008 away from Senator Norm Coleman the winner and gave the seat to that idiot Al Franken.

http://www.facebook.com/larry.wing.10 Larry Wing

Yep and they've got their "undocumented" vote generators all cranked up to pass this baby thru too.

Huapakechi

That can be laid at the feet of Sec State richie. Why he was not removed by the Governor bears looking in to.

William Wallace

How about any politician who wishes to rally against guns, put up a sign in his front yard that says "No guns in this house" and also to refuse any protection from security agents. Let them be responsible for their own safety according to their own beliefs. No hypocrisy allowed.

danclamage

What I foresee happening is Democrat lawmakers demanding honest civilians turn in their weapons or become criminals... and the citizen militia en masse going to their state capitol with their weapons, locked and loaded, and saying to these lawmakers, "from our cold, dead hands!" These lawmakers should be summarily dismissed or imprisoned, having proven themselves to be a clear and present danger to the security of our nation.

http://www.facebook.com/sandi.meenan Sandi Meenan

what a rotten bunch of useless liberals. just another bunch of do nothing do gooders who know what they think is the best for us ! get out or we will throw you out !

http://profiles.google.com/pudbertsavannahga Mort Leith

Niiice, all of the Communist States are Declaring themselves ! !

Makes it easier to identify them when the Secession and Revolution begins... We'll take bets on how long it will take for them to go bankrupt (excluding Michigan & Califruity that is, cuz they're ALREADY Broke !),,, when they lose us WORKER Tax Paying States that they live off of via the Welfare corrupt gov't that we're currently experiencing.

Disgusted Patriot

This madness isn't gun control it is people control. Control the honest, hard working American gun owner, strip the citizen of any rights and liberty and make them a subject. This will not bother the ciminals, it will only go after law abiding folks. Registration leads to confiscation, history proves it. If this nonsense does come to pass I pray that every citizen of Minnesota decides to become a criminal, defy the tyrants and not register one damn gun! Vote the tyrants out of office, take a stand and be a patriot. There is strength in numbers.

wdcraftr

Gun control doesn't exist. It's People Control. Did you know that maybe 1 in a million crimes with guns are committed by a legal gun owner with a legal gun? So why do Legal gun owners need to give up gun rights, or need Registration? Only so Tyrannous govt folks know where to go to take them away. If they can't outlaw them, then they want to know where they are, so they can come to your home and Take them, Unlawfully.. Guns, right to protect ones self and family, freedom of speech, assembly, etc, are God Given Rights. The Constitution just re-states these rights. Govt does Not give them to us, nor does the Constitution. God does! And Govt connot Take these rights away!!! Only You can Give these rights away. If you do Not wish to give up your Rights, then buy guns and ammo. Throughout History, this is the Only way to Protect those rights. You must Protect, Earn, Fight for, Die for those rights, if you wish to Keep Them....

don

the goverment can take nothing from us UNLESS WE LET THEM. whitch is in progress

Carlos Ramos

When I research “A determination of incompetency" I see a photo of Barea$$ Obscumbo When I research the Second Amendment It states the Right of the People to Keep and Bare Arms shall not be infringed. That is followed by a PERIOD. Amendment 4 states that The right of the People to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated...

doctorbob

Well, I'm certain all the gang bangers will line up and register their guns at ONCE! Right? And a man would have to be truly crazy to register knowing he has a history of mental health issues, or a returning veteran with depression, or a person with an old felony conviction. Who elects these ignorant lawmakers? Couldn't they find anyone who lives in the REAL world? .

If a person is found "incompetent", by definition that person cannot be held accountable for actions. There is a real 'mental health issue' is the gun control but it is only manifesting itself in the gun-control crowd.

http://www.facebook.com/lloyd.revalee Lloyd Revalee

Have the good people of the State thought about getting rid of those individuals proposing such a law? Rebellion is the name of the game, and the citizens of any State should just ignore any laws that violate their rights or the Constitution. They should organizse groups that will be fully prepared to protect one another should local or State law enforcement try to enforce such laws, if they are enacted. Wake up and act like the great Americans we are, or are supposed to be.

don

ehaaaaa to you ltoyd.

doctorbob

ALL dictators in history register all the guns.... right before they CONFISCATE all the guns.... right before they start killing the citizens. Thanks, but I'll be a Felon and keep my UNregistered firearms, thank you. I suspect I'll have a whole lot of new Felon friends, too!

jb80538

When you get ALL CRIMINALS to register their guns, maybe we'll consider it...but not real seriously.

don

criminals are not involed in this at all. its us an only our enslavement that their after

http://www.facebook.com/people/Rick-LapLante/1073274392 Rick LapLante

What an inconvenience. Now criminals will have to get them smuggled in from Mexico, like the high schoolers do their pot.

pretzeldude

Minnesota one of if not the most liberal state in the union. I'm glad I left in 1981. If I were still living there I'm afraid I'd have to tell the Minn. legislature to KMA.

sgtshel

This isn't just going to be enforced my Obambe's government, the United Nations has been working on this with the help of both Obambe and Hillary for years! Google it!

tony

Minnesota, mind your own business!

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000000541834 Ted Smith

Germany had universal gun registration in the 1930s. Hitler rounded up the guns of the people he didn't want armed and we know the results. I think things in Nazi Germany would have been a lot different if Jews there had been able to shoot back. Adolph would have been wacked long before Auschwitz was ever built.

horseradish

not all Minnesotans are that stupid--just the foul people

1PierreMontagne1

Because Active criminals are by default exempted from all legal requirements in all matters even before this bill was proposed - it becomes clear that the intent of the bill is to create Criminals of innocent possessors of firearms.

azbear166

I Would tell them all to go to HeII and keep going!!!!

http://twitter.com/LDommel Linda Dommel

HISTORY TEACHES= "This year will go down in history 4 the 1st time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. R streets will be safer, R police more efficient, & the world will follow R lead into the future. ADOLPH HITLER, 1935 The Weapon Act of Nazi Germany. It could not be clearer that the DEMOCRATIC PARTY is the Communist Party. I saw film of Obama's inauguration supportor, saying Yes to communist! THEY WANT THE GOV'T TO TAKE CARE OF THEM! They don't know history, it's not gov't taken care, it's CONTROLLING them! They will work where told 2 work= for their daily FOOD (NO MONEY) etc.. I not going into detail but they will have COST in order to benefit only the Elite in Power the rest (the little guys) R SLAVES to the ELITE!

Brabado

Perhaps their brains are frozen by the cold... MAY GOD GUIDE THEM, AND MAKE THEM STOP BEFORE MAKING A VERY STUPID MISTAKE... FIRST YOUR HAVE THE GUNS REGISTERED, AND THEN, YOU CONFISCATE THEM!!! GO PAKERS!!!!!

wildeagleone

And I say to all the lawmakers in Minnesota that the idea that they can take away the God given right of the people to bear and keep arms and or charge them for it, then they themselves must be charged each and every time the kiss their children and or make love to their wives// husbands thought that too is a God given right

As an expatriate of 'Massachusetts-on-the-Mississippi' I can only shake my head in wonder at what is taking place there. I know I shouldn't be surprised given that the 'Land of 10,000 Taxes' has produced Humphrey, Mondale, Wellstone, Franken, et al, but I just can't see the Patriotic Taxpayers who don't drink the Twin Cities Kool-Aid standing for this.

mudguy1

The way the government is going about gun control is like telling me to get castrated because my neighbor has too many kids.

http://www.facebook.com/benjamin.fox.98892 Benjamin Fox

Another state that is a commie state, just like many in this country have become, hope they fall into all the lakes around them, a bunch of nazi want to be's.

oldcoyote

You sound like you got a free phone and other stuff from your Marxist shill like the rest of the worthless deadbeats. Wouldn't be surprised but what free housing also.

fwiw

How many illegals are there in this country? How many gun owners are there? IF they can't handle the illegals, they can't handle the gun owners.

G. Macher

They tried this in Canada and even Canadians did not comply. After 20 years of trying to get guns registered the government gave up. Of the gun owners who did register guns NOT ONE OF THEM WAS A CRIMINAL!

NINJA10R KLR650

Drop dead Minnesota Demons.

kb

Universal gun registration disenfranchises potential gun owners. It creates a burden on individuals to get to the place of registration and apply for permission to own or possess a gun pursuant to the second amendment. In locations where registration fees apply, or where government office hours are restrictive - this will prevent people, especially minorities and poor people from exercising their constitutional second amendment rights. This amounts to the government’s deliberate attempts at disenfranchising gun ownership by otherwise legal owners. Any attempts at disenfranchising potential gun owners from exercising their second amendment right should be shouted down by the ACLU and other pro-liberties, pro- individual rights groups. After all the right to bear arms is a right not to be infringed on, not a privilege.

rational

Forget registration, how about responsibility. If you sell a gun, you can register the gun and its purchaser or not. If you don’t register the sale and it’s used in a crime, you’re a conspirator in that crime. If you register the sale, then there’s no problem.

http://www.lemmingreport.blogspot.com Akingu

it only makes it easier to target the legal gun owners and it ignores the true criminals in the ghettos, synagogues, and barrios. To date, the criminals that commit the MOST crimes are the blacks and mexicans while the serial shooters are jewish. Loughter, jewish, Hinkley, jewish, Lanza, jewish, Kliebold, jewish, Harris, ARA jewish supporter, DC sniper jewish, Rubyjewish, , Oswald, jewish, Booth, jewish. Maybe we need to start getting rid of the JEWS and our childrens schools will be safer?

colleenf

What else do you expect from the land of Franken?

American Patriot

More liberal democrats with their Minnesota heads up obamas ass or sucking his dick. Because they have no minds of.their own or remember their OATHE and standing by is.

jwright673

I'm curious at the term universal background checks. My understanding of the term universal is that it is world-wide, and I guess you'd have to throw in the heavens too. So, who will conduct these checks? Interpol? Aliens? Just saying...

James Maxwell

And yet another attempt to provide governments with information for their planned confiscation of firearms. But first they have to find a way to circumvent the Constitution and get the uninformed people to comply with an illegal demand. My guns will be undocumented firearms and they government will always be wondering when or where the citizens will have them.

HerrCapitanFick

Older people to a degree have an allegiance to this country - they are patriotic to a limited degree. The younger people are not. The younger people have no allegiance to anyone, but themselves. They will tell on anyone for anything; they will even tell on themselves! The government has started various campaigns about telling on your neighbors/fellow citizens. If you have been paying attention, then you should already know that the women and the kids already do that and especially if there is a little something in it for them. The women and kids are already in the government's camp. And when it comes time, they will take you, the big bad mouths and squash you like a bug! They will nuke an entire town if they find the need/want to keep their power! If you so much as give them a flicker of resistance, now you don't believe me -- tug on Superman's cape. You have lost your country, but you'll be O.K. if you keep paying your money. Pay attention now. You have lost your backbone and your country. I know you fools are going to argue with me, but that just means you have not been paying attention. I believe this is my main point on everything!

More Government Socialists in Minnesota who need to be rounded up and Shipped Out !!! The Dick Act of 1902 is already on the Books !!!

http://www.facebook.com/spiritewalker Norman Baker

In the end result anyone who disagrees with ANYTHING the government wants to do will be branded as 'mentally ill' and taken to a FEMA reorientation center anyway... The current gun ban in New York and under debate in other States are nothing more than 'tests'... The real 'end game' being played is a complete new list of 'mental illnesses' which ban gun ownership from an ever expanding portion of the population... The current 'gun ban' legislation simply provides a list of all pro-gun people who will become mentally ill under future re-definitions of the term mental illness... This way, they will not violate the 2nd Amendment which could be a problem for them in the SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States), AND, most importantly, it lets them 'pick and choose' who is mentally ill, so the corporate statist Elite's can practice 'selective enforcement' and continue to exempt themselves while they restrict the ability for self-defense for the rest of us...

SFS444

Minnesota has a bunch of no good politicians and the Unions are the main culprits. Unions don't care about this country only the bones that they get. Minneapolis is on its way to becoming something worse than Detroit.

Ken Bolin

When will the men in the place of making law wake up? we see this hate for the freedom of the people. We see this hate they have for we the people& for the people because they want full control over all of us even over all of America. I know what all of them are after it's to take away every thing we've had given to all of the America people. When they get our gun's then they have us look at that pot belled taco bender in Venesuela. He's the big dactitor you must know all who put him in that place are the same marxist bunch that is working with this to be dactitor of the United States Of America. osama hussein obama this is all about the marxisr muslim socialist democrats & the marxist news media. If all of the America people don't wake up now like today it will be to late for anything to change. America our only hope is in Jesus Christ & Our Heavenly Father The Only True God. It's time for all of America to pray as never before pray America Pray The God Of Abraham Isaac jabco Can & Will See Us through & Make Away for all of us to see Only Him [ God ]

make these changes we must have.

Spectre7075

The entire Minnesota Senate can GO TO HELL!!!!!

glock 19 fan

Let's see..... Registration.....followed by Taxation followed by Confiscation as the personal property taxes are raised so high that the gun owners can't pay them. That has been a subject for concern for the last 50 years. And it keeps rearing its ugly head. Not only that but government at all levels has an abysmal record for personal data protection and gun registration lists would be extremely likely to be "lost" or "stolen" from a laptop computer in a govt employee's car's back seat.

KY republican

;You may as well get used to the demise of the 2nd Amendment, the Bill of Rights and eventually the Constitution. Figure out where to put your money and where to live. The Socialists and Commies are coming and we are done as the America we all lived in before 2009. May God forgive them and forgive us for allowing it to happen.

2War Abn Vet

No single gun control law, and we have over 20,000 of them, has ever stopped a criminal intent on causing havoc. Passing additional laws will only serve to disarm honest people. Nothing government does will have any effect whatever on criminals.

How did Minnesota become such a liberal place? when did this happen? they probably got kalifornicated like colorado

redrover

Missouri ought to just deal with their own state and butt out of everyone else's business because we will not give up on our guns! It is no ones business who has them or not...what idiot thinks that gun control will stop a thing...it will not!!! It is better we have them to stop those that would get them anyway no matter what! So get over the gun thing and get some smarts; let's get this nation back in shape. again! Guns won the Revolutionary War and the West too!! The way our government has gotten- it is time to strap on the side arms and put a rifle in every car again anyway! They are total fools and are trashing America beyond belief with their insanity!!!!

nanblan

Yup. That's exactly the first step Hitler took. With the amassing of a national list of gun owners, the Nazis were then able to use the prized information to confiscate guns from whomever they wanted (primarily Jews.) They did pick and choose, however, allowing those favorable to their movement to retain their weapons.

Such a list is a gold mine to any oppressive form of government, such as fascism, communism, Marxism, etc. I would have to say that since Obama's policies are taking away more of our freedoms each and every day, and trying to destroy our economy and basic way of life, he and his administration definitely fall under the label of oppressive . . . and extremely dangerous.

http://twitter.com/gtl1941 Gary LeBlanc Sr.

First step to total gun confication,.

Fr. John+

Truly, if this is where the FEDGOV is wanting to go, secession is the only valid, moral, and logical thing left. America is dead. Requiescat in pace.

Glenn

Looks like another money scheme to get money to provide jobs. not much there to stop gun violence.

Kent2012

from the state that elected that dip $hit al frankenfooter......

gypsy314

I say the sooner we have the revolution or civil war and remove all liberals from America and never again allow them to return would be best for America. I know bloodshed will be but freedom is not cheap. Our love one's before us have paid the price and now to let Obama and crew and democrats take our rights away would be a crime so lets get it on.

Huapakechi

These 'legislators' in Minnesota had best avoid open windows and traveling without presidential grade security if this obscenity is made law. In fact, they might consider residing behind thick concrete walls patrolled by armed guards for the remainder of their lives.

http://www.facebook.com/mark.berg.735 Mark Berg

Having a moron and a Democrat for a governor,does not help much in these times. He will follow Obama to the (whatever). About well we can do now with the people mostly asleep is pray, and prepare to fight.!